Ezekiel 40:12

12 In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.

Ezekiel 40:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 40:12

The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on
this side
Or, "a border" ^F1 of half a yard and three inches to the front of the chambers; where those that belonged to them might walk, or have seats to sit on; such a space there was before the three little chambers on the north side of the porch: and the space was one cubit on that side:
a space or border of the same measure was to the front of the three little chambers on the south side of the porch: this may denote the Christian liberty of the members of Gospel churches; which they may use without any breach of piety towards God, or of charity one to another: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on
that side;
they were of the same measure, those on one side, as those of the other, even six cubits square; or one reed, which is the same; see ( Ezekiel 40:7 ) , (See Gill on Ezekiel 40:7).

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (lwbg) "terminus", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Ezekiel 40:12 In-Context

10 There were three gate chambers on each side of the east gate, each with the same measurements, and the gateposts on either side also had the same measurements.

11 And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.

12 In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.

13 Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from doorway to doorway.

14 Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.